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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Benoshe.

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Speaker 2: A lot of songs in this, I guess Ben yes.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, lots of songs in Wicked for Good, the

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Speaker 1: sequel and finale to last year's Wicked adaptation. So the

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Speaker 1: actual stage musical second most popular musical ever in the

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Speaker 1: world in terms of box office. He's so successful, overtook

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Speaker 1: The Lion King, sort of just behind the Lion King.

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Speaker 1: And so last year's movie starring Cynthia Erevo as Alphaba,

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Speaker 1: the green wicked Witch of the West, who's not that

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Speaker 1: wicked really, it's an origin story. You realize she's actually lovely,

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Speaker 1: and Arian understood, well, we'll get onto that. And then

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Speaker 1: you've got ariana grande pop star as Glinda the Good

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Speaker 1: who she's fantastic. She was so hilarious and you watch

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Speaker 1: and you know it. She's actually a really funny actress.

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Speaker 2: She is funny.

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Speaker 1: That's so funny. And you had Michelle Yo as Madame Morrible,

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Speaker 1: the sort of the head mistress of the school, and

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Speaker 1: the great Jeff Goldblum as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and so that was the first movie. It made one

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Speaker 1: more than one point one billion dollars at the box office.

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Speaker 1: And here in Perth. On opening weekend alone last year,

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand people bought tickets to this movie. So it

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Speaker 1: is incredibly popular. And the film went on to be

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Speaker 1: nominated for ten Oscars. One two Cynthia and Ariana both

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Speaker 1: nominated for Oscar's Best Picture, got a nomination if there.

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Speaker 2: Was a category for you know, promotion of a movie.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, do you remember Ariana holding Cynthia's finger

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Speaker 1: and the holding space memes and talking about how much

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Speaker 1: they loved each other? It got weird, but anyway, so,

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Speaker 1: needless to say, the expectations for movie number two are

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Speaker 1: through the roof. Need you need a magic broom to

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Speaker 1: fly up to those expectations. That's what the altitude of

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Speaker 1: the bad pressure. It's disappointing. Oh it disappointed. It didn't

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Speaker 1: live up to the expectations. Unfortunately. I hate to break

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Speaker 1: it to everybody out there. And the reasons why actually

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Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. So the first movie was incredible,

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Speaker 1: the sets, the costumes, The wow factor was through the

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Speaker 1: roof is so straight away you don't have that wow factor.

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Speaker 1: That is just unfortunate. That's a reality. Uh. And the

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Speaker 1: other unfortunate reality of this movie is in the stage musical,

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Speaker 1: the first act is so much better than the second act.

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Speaker 1: The second act has the conclusion and the consequences and

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Speaker 1: all this sort of stuff, But the first act has

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Speaker 1: all the good songs.

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Speaker 3: So is it kind of like? So is it kind

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Speaker 3: of like just stretching the story too far? Basically, it's

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Speaker 3: like when they got to Police Academy six, you know

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Speaker 3: they lost?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that, you say six six was the

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Speaker 1: one where they went too far. Five was still totally

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Speaker 1: on board with what they were doing. But no, so

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Speaker 1: even in the musical, you go and watch the musical,

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Speaker 1: the second act is just not as good as the

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Speaker 1: first act. The first act has all the showstoppers, define gravity,

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Speaker 1: popular amazing song, no one mourns a wicked all that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. The second act there's just no show stoppers.

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Speaker 1: That's just that's just how it is. Unfortunately, so the

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Speaker 1: film suffers because of that. What I will say, though,

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Speaker 1: are in a grande like pencil her in for an

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Speaker 1: Oscar nomination again. She is even better. She steals the show.

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Speaker 1: This is the best thing I've ever seen her do.

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Speaker 1: She she's better than Cynthia Ravo as the main character.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Cynthia will miss out on an

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Speaker 1: Oscar nomination. I think Ariana will get one.

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Speaker 2: They both get nominated supporting.

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Speaker 1: One, Cynthia for lead and Ariana for reporting. This time,

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Speaker 1: I think Ariana definitely for supporting I could win it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It depends on what else happens. But

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Speaker 1: so she is fantastic.

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Speaker 3: But it's just it just.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, it feels like a chore at times. Sorry, hang on,

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Speaker 1: and it's long, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's really long.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting a word here from the makers of the

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Speaker 3: second Wicked movie too.

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Speaker 1: Which is not that long compared to a lot of

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Speaker 1: movies these days, but it feels long.

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Speaker 2: Well, how many were not in Kansas? Now, totos? Are

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Speaker 2: you giving it well?

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Speaker 1: Because of Ariana and the amazing technical achievement of the

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Speaker 1: set and the costumes and the visual effects and all

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Speaker 1: of those people that work really hard. Three giving it three?

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Speaker 2: Three?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's better than I was expecting. You're going to

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Speaker 3: give you that sort of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't for all of that disappointing easily easily

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Speaker 1: it could be two.

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Speaker 2: And a half.

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Speaker 3: All right, Okay, there you go. We'll get a new movie. Hopefully.

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Speaker 3: That positive review next week,